California’s Influx of Unemployed Workers
The prospect of California becoming a rendezvous of the unemployed the coming winter is foreshadowed by the following dispatch from Hanford, dated September 23:— If the present influx of employment seekers continues another week, Hanford's population will be doubled. Small squads have arrived each day during the past week. Most of them rode all the way from Colorado on top of box cars, having compelled the railroad employees to give them free transportation. Each squad seems to be organized, having a leader who does all the talking. On arriving the squads remain in the depot while their captain goes in search of information concerning employment. All those who are willing to work have found a market for their services, and those who refuse to work are given a floater by the officers. The demand for labor is now fully supplied, and in view of the fact that principally female help is employed in packing raisins, the newcomers will find themselves out of employment when the grape crop is picked.